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Virus is NOT the cause Definition of AIDS is Worthless Treatment is
Poison "Anyone interested in AIDS must read this book." Laurence E.
Badgley, M.D Author of Healing AIDS Naturally Investigative
reporter Jon Rappoport uncovers the shocking truth about AIDS:
Thousands are dying needlessly as the medical world and media pull
off the biggest scandal of our time - all for the love of power and
money. AIDS INC: takes you on a sizzling behind-the-scenes tour of
laboratories, newsrooms and even the White House to expose the real
killers behind the disease. It's the most explosive,
myth-shattering book you'll read this year. Book Size: 216x140
Being a facsimile reproduction from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum,
written in 1652, with annotations by Elias Ashmole. The historian
may find small value in the Ordinall as a chemical document,
however its sprightliness of style, its somewhat archaic, yet not
difficult, language, and its atmosphere of romance, combine to make
it a delightful book to read. The Ordinall is written in Old
English text.
"The enemy in washington is more to be feared than the enemy in
Moscow" Communism did not destroy tariff protection created by
George Washington. Communism did not force the United States to
adopt graduated income tax. Communism did not create the Federal
Reserve Board. Communism did not force the United Nations on
America. Communism did not take away the Panama Canal away from the
American people. Communism did not create the Global 2000 report
mass genocide plan. It is socialism that has brought forth these
evils upon the United States. "One World Order: Socialist
Dictatorship" tells how this was, and is being accomplished.
Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened–to the military, to the economy, to the American people, to the country–during Bill Clinton’s presidency, and how the decisions made during his tenure affect all of us today.
Much has been written about Clinton, but The Natural is the first work to cut through the gossip, scandals, media hype, and emotional turbulence that Clinton always engendered, to step back and rationally analyze the eight years of his tenure, a period during which America rose to unprecedented levels of prosperity. Joe Klein puts that record into perspective, showing us what worked and what didn’t, exactly what was accomplished and why, and who was responsible for the successes and the failures.
We see how the Clinton White House functioned on the inside, how it dealt with the maneuvers of Congress and the Gingrich revolution, and who held power and made the decisions during the endless crises that beset the administration. Klein’s access to the White House over the years as a journalist gave him a prime spot from which to view every crucial event–both political and personal–and he sets them forth in an insightful, readable, and completely engrossing manner.
The Natural is stern in its criticism and convincing with its praise. It will cause endless debate amongst friends and foes of the Clinton administration. It is a book that anyone interested in contemporary politics, in American history, or in the functioning of our democracy, should read.
From the Hardcover edition.
Contents: dweller in the temple; waking and sleeping, and how the
dweller in the temple sometimes looks abroad; allegorical dreams,
presentiment, etc.; warnings; double dreaming and trance; wraiths;
dopplegangers or doubles; apparitions; future that awaits us; power
of will; troubled spirits; haunted houses; spectral lights and
apparitions attached to certain families; apparitions seeking the
prayers of the living; the poltergeist of the Germans and
possession; miscellaneous phenomena.
The definitive word on the subject from the dean of urban legend studies.
We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true—roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees—but have you heard about the ice man or the bullet baby? This comprehensive and compellingly readable reference work will answer all your urban legend questions, offering alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, legend themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre. Other entries discuss the relationship of urban legends to literature, film, comic books, music, and many other areas of popular culture. A Booklist Editors' Choice 2001 Reference Book. 60 b/w illustrations.
"Unlike most encyclopedias, this one may be read cover to cover."—Choice
"Compiled by the foremost authority on this form of contemporary folklore....Superb."—Library Journal
Do spiders sleep? Why are barns red? Why is there a crescent moon on outhouse doors? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? As the Xerox Corporation's official webmaster, Bill McLain often fielded as many as 1,000 questions a day on just about everything under the sun -- and beyond. The wildest, funniest, and even most astute are collected here (along with their answers) in McLain's second volume that's as fascinating and enlightening as his first, Do Fish Drink Water? A "veritable Internet legend known for having all the answers" (San Francisco Chronicle), McLain explains what keeps squirrels from toppling off telephone wires; why the skin on your fingers and toes shrivels up in the water; how seedless watermelons are created; and more. Whether it's animal, vegetable, mineral, or something completely different, the answer is bound to be as interesting as the question itself, and certain to satisfy the trivia hound in everyone.
When Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast right-wing conspiracy"
determined to bring down the president, many people dismissed the
idea. Yet if the first lady's accusation was exaggerated, the facts
that have since emerged point toward a covert and often concerted
effort by Bill Clinton's enemies--abetted by his own reckless
behavior--which led inexorably to impeachment. Clinton's foes
launched a cascade of well-financed attacks that undermined
American democracy and nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency.
In vivid prose, Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, two award-winning
veteran journalists, identify the antagonists, reveal their
tactics, trace the millions of dollars that subsidized them, and
examine how and why mainstream news organizations aided those who
were determined to bring down Bill Clinton, "The Hunting of the
President "may very well be the "All the President's Men" of this
political regime.
More than a quarter century after Bob Woodward introduced his
Scotch-drinking, cigarette-smoking, garage-skulking friend and
source in All the President's Men , the public remains enduringly
engrossed by the mystery of Deep Throat's identity. Leonard Garment
became fascinated himself and began his own search for Deep Throat.
This is the story of that hunt and its successful outcome, a hunt
conducted in quintessential Washington fashion: at lunches,
dinners, and parties, through the examination of secret, classified
documents and testimony, and assisted by liberal doses of political
gossip and insider tips from Woodward himself.
The Canadian media system, which in many respects is this society's
"meeting ground"-its public square-is in the midst of a profound
shift away from the foundations on which it has rested comfortably
for decades. The publicly financed Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, long the backbone of the broadcasting system, is
threatened by budget cuts and by technological change. The
newspaper industry has fallen into the hands of a few powerful
individuals. Huge global corporations and a vast communications
revolution are dramatically altering the nature of news and
entertainment. This book argues that unless action is taken these
changes will narrow our access to the information we need as
citizens and damage our capacity to communicate with each other and
reflect on ourselves as a community. Power and Betrayal in the
Canadian Media is a sweeping exploration of the Canadian media
system and the impact it has on Canadian society, politics, and
culture.
On June 10th, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that
the US had captured a known terrorist who was exploring a plan to
explode a "dirty bomb" on American soil. That alleged terrorist was
Jose Padilla who was finally charged in 2005 with conspiracy to
murder. What Ashcroft didn't talk about was how information against
him was obtained - by the relentless torture of one man-- Binyam
Mohamed, in the name of the United States. Arrested at Karachi
Airport before Padilla's arrest on April 10, 2002, Mohamed was put
on a luxury executive jet and flown to an interrogation center in
Morocco. For over 18 months, he was subjected to one torture after
another: Beating followed beating and, then, his guards produced
razor blades and began to split the skin all over his body,
including on his genitals. Since 1997, hundreds of people, many of
whom have no ties to terrorist organizations, have been abducted
from foreign airports or street corners on suspicions based at
times on the flimsiest of evidence courtesy of the United States
Central Intelligence Agency. In "Ghost Plane," Stephen Grey tells
the true story of the CIA's torture program known by the euphemism
"extraordinary rendition" and the airplanes that make the program
run. Begun during the Clinton administration, but taking a
decidedly more voracious turn after 9/11, the rendition system has
seen the transfer of more than 1000 prisoners into jails stretching
from Guantanamo to Syria, from Kabul to Bangkok and beyond. Grey
had access to the thousands of CIA flight records and has
interviewed dozens of sources from the most senior levels of the
National Security Council to the CIA. In Ghost Plane, he paints a
disturbing picture of the War on Terror that reaches to the highest
levels of power in Washington, D.C. and exposes the extreme ethical
corruption at the heart of this US government program, a program
finally acknowledged by President George Bush in September 2006,
undertaken in the name of the citizens of the United States.. "
Barranger and Tice join forces in an overall investigation into
human origins, religion, mythology, UFOs, and other unexplained
phenomena as they cover the most ancient mysteries and end up with
an assessment of where we are currently from a religious and
spiritual standpoint.
This work was originally published by the independent Bible Society
of New York. This edition is an updated version with a new
introduction by Paul Tice. The Bible is commonly referred to by
many of us as "the good book." But do we really know what's in it
when we so freely give it that title? It is a work which certainly
has its good points, but why do we insist on glossing over and
ignoring the things that would be considered bad or embarrassing?
Lots of strange things happened in the Bible. If they made the
Bible into a movie (in its entirety) it would be rated X. Would you
want your kids to go see it? Read this book and then decide. We do
not recommend this book to those under 18 because, even though it
is the Bible, we might in fact be accused of selling pornography
It's unlikely that your local minister would use many of these
passages in his sermons. If you're the kind of person who sees
movies for the action scenes and always likes things happening then
don't bore yourself with the rest of the Bible - just read this
one. All the boring stuff was taken out. Just kick back and enjoy
all the sex, bloodshed and murder you can stand - it's all in here
and it's all yours for just a few measley bucks. Sure, it's
embarrassing for a minister or the church itself to be confronted
with these realities. There is good and bad in all of us, and the
Bible is no exception. For those who take the Bible literally and
wish to follow its example, we can only tell you that what is found
within many of its pages docs not add up to a profound moral code.
Look at the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades, as two examples,
and you will find they were not following a profound moral code at
the time, butused the Bible as their guidepost in all of their
brutal decisions. This book exposes many of the Bible's most
shocking passages -- things you never imagined the "holy book"
would contain. If you have read this back cover without being too
offended, then chances are you will be intrigu
The author of the History of the First Council of Nice, Dean
Dudley, searched the annals of history using the most scholarly and
trusted sources available to reveal exactly how Christianity, as we
know it today, was "railroaded" into existence. This was the first
major council in Christendom, taking place in the year A.D. 325.
The major controlling force behind this convention was the Roman
Emperor Constantine.
Constantine came to power in ruthless fashion, one of six
sovereigns of the Roman Empire in the year A.D. 308 (they had been
collectively appointed in 305). Only Constantine survived beyond
the next decade and only one of the other sovereigns died a natural
death. Constantine seemed to be involved in the deaths of each of
the others, who were all non-Christian. It became politically
expedient for Constantine to side with Christianity during this
early and ruthless power struggle, and murderous plots were its
central theme. After Constantine triumphed, he recalled or released
Christian ministers who had been persecuted by his rivals.
With his ruthless past weighing heavily on him, he was told by a
counsellor that there were no sins so great that they cannot be
forgiven in Christianity. This was exactly what he wanted to hear.
He embraced the faith enough to justify what he had done and,
although he did not officially convert, approved the faith in 313
for the entire Roman Empire. Following this, he went on to
eliminate close relatives and family who might otherwise challenge
his crown. Christianity seemed to be his" partner in crime." Later,
on Constantine's own deathbed, he made sure to officially convert
to the faith in an effort to wash away his sins.
The Council ofNice, basically run by Constantine, endorsed a few
erroneous and inaccurate concepts which were accepted by the faith,
and thereby opened the door for such practices to continue in later
years. We should study the origins of our human problems so we can
make an attempt to solve them. Christ
The author investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new
century has cast everything from El Nino to sheep cloning in
apocalyptic terms, simultaneously fuelling panic and fostering
unfounded hope for a perfect world. Millennial rhetoric is both
pervasive and persuasive, Quinby argues, because it operates with
mutually reinforcing doses of fear and hope. Religious and secular
anxiety erupts over charged issues such as sex education, the
regulation of cyberspace and the Christian masculinity of the
Promise Keepers. Quinby exposes the dangers of millennialist
solutions, which link misogyny, homophobia and racism with
absolutist claims about truth, morality, sexuality and technology.
It is the absolutism of apocalyptic thought - not an impending
apocalypse - that poses the more serious threat to society, Quinby
maintains. Her work advocates a form of scepticism that challenges
absolutism and encourages democratic participation.
Translated from the Russian by Victor Marsden. The Protocols
supposedly outlines a plan of action by elders of the Jewish Nation
to rule the world -- to take control over key organizations,
including assets, in order to manipulate world affairs in their
favor. Some say the issue has already been settled conclusively --
that it is clearly a forgery. Although there may be final evidence
to this effect, we have not seen a clear and convincing version of
it produced by those making the claim. Others maintain that it was
and is absolutely genuine -- proven by the fact that all copies
were destroyed in Russia in the early 1900s by the Kerensky regime.
In the following years, anyone caught with a copy could be, and
sometimes were, shot on sight. It was law, The Protocols were taken
seriously by the Russians and by people in America like the famed
industrialist, Henry Ford. This seems to give it validity, but
people (and nations) have been known to be fooled. If The Protocols
are a forgery, they still form an interesting book which deserves
to be studied in the same way "The War of the Worlds" radio
broadcast duped many thousands into thinking we were being invaded
by Martians in the early part of the 20th century. If, however. The
Protocols are genuine (which can never be proven conclusively), it
might cause some of us to keep a wary eye on world affairs. We
neither support nor deny its message, we simply make it available
for those who wish a copy.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
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